We'll start the WordPress installation wizard with the web browser. I like to use Google Chrome but any web browser should work. So, open your browser and navigate to your multisite installation URL. I installed WordPress multisite at a subdomain of my main longren.org domain name, but you can use a subdirectory too, such as http://www.longren.org/multisite/.
Once you've opened your site you'll see a window as shown in the following screenshot. This is where you can set the name of the site as well as choose your administrative username and password. The default administrative username in WordPress is admin
but I highly suggest that you change that to something else. A lot of WordPress web attacks try to exploit the default administrative account name, so not having an admin
user puts you in a better position security-wise.
That is the only page where you need to enter any information in the WordPress installation wizard. In the next screenshot, you can see what the page in the previous screenshot should look like after you've filled everything out.
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After you've filled everything out and chosen a username anything other than the admin
term, click on the Install WordPress button at the bottom of that page. After clicking on Install WordPress, you'll see a Success
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message along with your chosen username. As you can see in the following screenshot, your password isn't shown on the screen:
Once you're on the Success! page, you can click on the Log In button. You'll be taken to your WordPress login page, located at /wp-login.php
or http://multisite.longren.org/wp-login.php in my example. You can also navigate to /wp-admin/
or http://multisite.longren.org/wp-ad min/, to log in to your WordPress Dashboard window. The default login page can be seen in the following screenshot. The login screen can be changed visually through the use of plugins or custom settings for your WordPress theme.
Enter the Username and Password values that you chose when going through the WordPress installation wizard to get logged in. Upon successful login, you'll be taken to your WordPress Dashboard window for the first time. Now, we get to do more stuff that's specific to multisite setups. But first, the following screenshot shows what your WordPress Dashboard window should look like: